NYPD DEPUTY COMMISSIONER BUILT DANCE STUDIO FOR HIS COPS

NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Personnel Michael A. Julian was given the responsibility of developing programs to train officers in the New York Police Department. One of his projects: he spent $60,000 to turn an old printing room at Police Headquarters into a Zumba dance studio. Julian had workers install workout mats and flat-screen TVs in the basement room. The officers who work in the building also wanted showering facilities so they wouldn’t have to walk through the building in sweaty workout gear to get cleaned up. Julian was so proud of the setup that he gave Police Commissioner Bill Bratton a tour. Bratton was so angry, he ordered the equipment torn out and had the room locked, sources said. The dance studio wasn’t Julian’s first wacky on-the-job proposal. In January, he suggested arming cops with breath mints to combat cursing – and had 10,000 individually wrapped candies delivered to headquarters. The idea was that cops can pop the mints when they feel the need to curse. They were never used. He also suggested that officers spray protesters who link arms with baby oil to slide them apart. Julian is no longer deputy commissioner of training personnel.
* You can just picture the look on the Police Commissioners face, can’t you?
* “A Zumba dance studio? Are you f-in kidding me!!!!!!!”
* How does this train cops for work on the job? “You have the right to remain silent, and join me for a quick five-minute Tango.”
* The slogan is “To Serve and Protect.” Not “To Serve and Pirouette.”
* “Sorry, we can’t get an officer to your house right now. He’s in his dance class.”
* “The Thin Blue Conga Line.”
* Breath mints to combat cursing? Wait, what do they do for bad breath? Try swearing?